Getting Promoted as a Management Consultant — Part 1
If you're in a professional services firm and looking to get promoted, I’m going to share three pieces of advice that other people won’t tell you
If you’re a management consultant looking to get promoted, I’m going to share three secrets that you probably aren’t aware of that will impact your promotion. Because of how much detail I get into, I’ve broken this into two articles. You can find part 2 with three more secrets here.
Having been on both sides of the equation (being promoted, and working with my counsellees — that’s what management calls the people they are coaching and responsible for putting forward for promotion at the end of the fiscal year — to get them promoted), I am going to focus on the things that others won’t tell you.
First, some information to set the context for those of you that are brand new to management consulting.
How the performance review works
The way it works at the firm is that all managers, senior managers and partners (basically the ‘management’ team) come together in a board room near the end of the fiscal year and they all discuss the analysts, consultants and senior consultants on their team. Each…
